Sometimes nature provides you with perfection and all you have to
do is capture it.
One day as I walked out of the elevator into the courtyard of an
office complex, I passed a pink flower in a perfect circle that caught my attention.
I had to stop and photograph it!
I took out my little Canon Power Shot from my purse and turned on
the scene select. I chose “foliage” for plants, and then turned on the macro
setting so my subject would be clear up close. I took several shots of the
flower whole and inside itself so the entire frame was all pink. I chose this
photo because it illustrated the perfect circle. I had never seen this before
or since. Creating a photo that is entirely one color is fun, but in this case
it didn’t show how amazing nature can be.
Now, looking more closely at this flower, it is not perfect. There
is a blemish in one of the pedals. The blemish is in a pedal in the second
layer at the bottom of the frame. The darkened cracked line reminds me that
nothing and no one is totally perfect, but can still be absolutely stunning!
It is up to us, the viewer, and photographer, to capture these
rare moments and remind others of nature’s fleeting beauty. There are many
people who are in their own minds and don’t notice any miracles of nature until
someone stops them and points them out.
I went back to that plant a week or two later and the flowers were
all wilted and dying. I was grateful I had seen this “perfect” flower when I
did and had captured it in my camera that day. I can revisit this miracle and
enjoy it as often as I like, and I like that.
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Complete story from, Moments in Time Captured Forever; You Don't Need a Good Camera to Take Good Pictures.
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